Hackers can figure out your password in less than 12 seconds thanks to high street graphics cards that cost as little as £30, business hosting firm UKFast revealed as part of Cyber Security Awareness Month.

The company performed tests using an Nvidia Geforce GT220 graphics card, which can be bought for £30 at some retailers, on a Windows 7 machine. It found that its security staff were able to crack an eight character password in four hours, a seven character password in five minutes and a six character password in just 12 seconds.

UKFast found that these cheap graphics card could process as much as 158 million possible passwords per second, putting previously complex and relatively unbreakable passwords at risk of being cracked by the sheer volume of potential combinations available over a short period of time.


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were all dooommmmeddd..... but yeh passwords are getting a bit old they should let you use fingure scanners or even face recognition software on alot of sites these day like to see them crack that with a gpu (bloody smart asses need to find better things to do) like getting me more than 3 bloody meg broadband would be a good start